The University of Washington football team had high expectations entering this season, its third under coach Chris Petersen, and expects to contend for its first Pac-12 Conference championship since 2000.
And the Huskies have been on track thus far, winning their first five games and ranking fifth in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll. Washington stayed undefeated with a rousing 44-6 victory over Stanford last Friday before a sellout crowd of 72,072, the largest they’ve had at Husky Stadium since renovating and reopening it in 2013.
But will that success and excitement sustain itself and translate into higher attendance?